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    Unleashed - As Yggdrasil Trembles (2010)

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    Swedish Death Metal legends Unleashed are back with another great album, “As Yggdrasil Trembles” marks another great release in the band’s career. If there is one thing you can count on with Unleashed is consistency. The band has managed to maintain their original style for almost 20 years, and yet they still sound fresh.

    Forming over 20 years ago, Unleashed has played a major role in the development of Viking Metal and bands that talked about Scandinavian mythology in general. Since the band was the first to use this topics in their lyrics, instead of the traditional ‘blood and guts’ approach, this has made them very unique since the beginning.

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    Disfigured Dead – Visions Of Death (2010)

    As with the current re-make and ‘bring back the old stuff’ trend that plagues Hollywood these days, we have a similar trend when it comes to music. We have Trash Metal coming back, old-school Death Metal returning, and etc, etc, etc. Disfigured Dead play, like you can guess from the album cover, ‘old-school’ Death Metal like in the early days of Cannibal Corpse, Incantation, etc.

    The band has no single piece of originality to it, BUT they mimic the ‘old-school’ sound to perfection. This makes Disfigured Dead attractive to some of us that sometimes are looking to hear something from back in the day, but are tired of spinning the same CD’s we have in the last 10-15 years.

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    Aenaon – Phenomenon (2009)

    After a very enticing intro, Aenaon does not waste any time in showing what they are made off. The second track opens furiously and shows the true beast hiding within the Aenaon moniker. You can clearly listen to the Zyklon, Emperor and Behemoth influences in this band.

    However, they are not just another clone of the previously mentioned bands. They just take all the best elements of them and fuse them with such grace that the 24 minutes that this EP presents will leave you with an extreme thirst for more.

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    Arise – The Reckoning (2010)

    Surrounded by very confusing information, I found stuff back from April 2009 indicating the release of this album. The album was also recorded back in 2007, according to the band’s website. We have “The Reckoning” an interesting but kind of flat release that mixes Trash and Death Metal.

    The band claims to have influences of Carcass, At The Gates and Hypocrisy. While this is somewhat true, they are missing the heart behind these legendary bands. Arise plays decent music and creates decent songs, but nothing more exciting than this.

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    Trident – World Destruction (2010)

    Featuring Johan Norman from Dissection fame, as well as members from Necrophobic, Grief Of Emerald and Jaggernaut. Trident is another super band who is here to storm the Metal scene, and with “World Destruction” the band creates a superb first impression.

    “World Destruction” features eight tracks of relentless and amazingly crafted Blackened Death Metal that will blow anybody away. With such quality of musicians you can’t expect anything less, but Trident delivers way more than you could imagine.

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    My Darkest Side – Death Begins (2010)

    While we usually don’t like bands that play Death-core, My Darkest Side has managed to make us more open to this genre. This young band delivers a very solid 12 minute promo with “Death Begins” that will leave you wanting more.

    “Death Begins” is a perfectly recorded promo release that shows that if there is a will there is a way. Nowadays unsigned bands are putting out more crap music than ever, thanks to cheap recording equipment and the myspace era. But My Darkest Side manages to shine away from their competition by having a very professional promo release.

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    Immolation - Majesty and Decay (2010)

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    In terms of Death Metal, Americans have been showing the world how it’s done in the past 20 years. And Immolation’s “Majesty and Decay” is another fine example of why this gene was so popular and has not gone away in the States.

    “Majesty and Decay” features an Immolation, that like wine, it’s only getting better with age. The band has never lost it’s edge and every release they put out is around the same level as the last one. Something extremely rare in the DM scene since you have the ‘big players’ of the scene like Cannibal Corpse and Six Feet Under releasing shit albums every once in a while.

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    Sectioned – Purulent Reality (2010)

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    Hailing from England we get Sectioned, a Death Metal band that takes us back to the glory days of the genre. “Purulent Reality” is being released by Paragon Records and showcases a very mature sounding band that can play a mean combination of Swedish and American Death Metal.

    Featuring 7 songs and 43 minutes of music, “Purulent Reality” has longer than average songs for a DM release. But the band pulls them off by featuring a vast array of riffs and catchy solos. The overall old-school sound of the band is one of the most appealing features of Sectioned.

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    Annotations Of An Autopsy - The Reign Of Darkness (2010)

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    Today from the UK we get Annotations Of An Autopsy a handful or pissed off Brits that have taken the Death Metal scene in the UK as their own and made it their bitch. After their some what weak debut album “Before the Throne of Infection”, the band is back with their latest aural assault and is a big improvement.

    “The Reign Of Darkness” features 11 tracks of Death Metal at it’s most brutal. Filled with meaty hooks and catchy riffs, this album is ready to blow your head clear off.

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    Enemy Reign - Means To A Dead End (2008)

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    For the countless fans of Death Metal we have today a pretty solid band from the USA called Enemy Reign. These Colorado based outfit present us with their very brutal EP called “Means To A Dead End”.

    The band features nothing ‘original’ about their music, other than the fact that is fast paced and brutal. It follows all the traditional elements of Death Metal: The furious drumming, blazing guitar riffs and hooks, and subhuman growls.

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